tension between their activist class, and then they re kind of compromise general election position while at the same time really satisfying a grassroots space that drives the energy in the primaries and drives the energy for the upcoming presidential election, because, remember, even on stuff stuff like abortion. ron desantis is currently pushing a six week abortion ban in florida. that would be a position that s difficult for a general election . the audience you have to please in the short term is much different than the audience that the republicans have to think about in the long term, and look at how republicans have handled the abortion fight that we re seeing right now. with this pill with the ruling from what happened in texas. a lot of them have been very quiet on it. yeah i ve heard someone call this the ostrich strategy. you know, sticking your head in the sand. it s not working for republicans . and i think that wisconsin was a real wake up call for them. there s been seve
or are you asking? no, i get it, and the president, gillian turner pointed out in the first block that president biden was seen as a big, big trail of caucus. judge jeanine: what do they think? jessica: the caucus in general agrees with president biden and the d.c. mayor, and my point was going to be beside surrendering my first pistole is that the last few years something really interesting is going on within the party that you are seeing a complete bifurcation of how the regular folks, the voting democrats and the activist class and elected politicians mostly on the state and local level feel about these policies. if you look at the candidates that have been elected and you look at picking joe biden out of a far left field from candidates, you will look at picking eric adams who is the most moderate candidates, ran on a criminal justice reform, but mostly pro police tamping down on crime and the city, things are changing for the average people who are saying things like i don t g
todd: still makes no sense. you see it in san francisco and seattle, as well, makes no sense, it is sickening. jonathan, you are a reporter, you cover this stuff. my question for you, there is reason seattle had the horrible policies, that is what the people wanted. what is response of those individuals, the far left woke individuals, to this refunding of police? well, obviously no matter what, we know the defund the police movement is failed social experiment, they are still standing by that. mayor harrell did not address the far left activists and woke, really fuelling the failed policies is ongoing issues and problems. it is interesting how that segment, this activist class will respond to what the mayor is trying to do. i want to add, the mayor laid out vision and hope for what he
now some folks on the left won t maybe be aware of why it resonate so much. you know, why there s a certain element of the activist class that feeds into these narratives and might well be giving a conch retribution to the rnc every day. but it s largely strongman. it has nothing to do with education. it just but why does it resonate so much? well, because i think people are furious at the idea that this ideology and partnership is impacting kids education in the classroom. and this is why these issues whether it s crtc, which is not that majority of schools, for example. or transports or by these politicians. but also you do have democrats like terry mcauliffe saying, parents don t have any words in the classroom. and we think politicians should be making more decisions and to john s point yes, some democrats really feed into this narrative. it does not help the policy argument on either side. it s a strategy that works, though, when you frame it as a paren